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Greeting all. I havnt been here in years. Getting back I to the hobby after a few year break. I used to have a laminated chart with brix corrections to use with my refractometer but I cant find it anywhere. I must have lost it moving. Could anyone email me the chart or post it here so I could...

when to add oak chips and how. Hey gang! Long time no see.. Well, its wine making season for me. I started a batch "5 gallons" of wine from concentrate "welches blueberry pomagranite" a few days ago and just transfered to secondary at .998 gravity. I had forgot that I had bought a bag of french...

update on my strawberry breeze My wife brought home 13 cans of welchs strawberry breeze frozen concentrate so I went to work.. I decided to make 14 liters. That will fill 3 "carlo rossi" secondaries and leave 2 liters for topping off. I added all 13 cans to my primary and filled with water to...

I made a 5 gallon batch of welches concord from frozen concentrate. I sweetened it with more concentrate to an sg of 1.005 because my wife likes it sweeter. It has been sitting for about 5 days since I sweetened it. I took a small sample and tasted it. It is not bad, but tastes more like grape...

I have made several batches of wine from concentrate with great results. This batch is a bit different, as was my technique. It was a 3 gallon batch of white wine from welches, standard 3 cans to make a gallon. Montrachet yeast and a starting sg of 1.087.. Started it 4 days ago in primary with...

A just removed the fruit strainer bag and transfered to my secondary at 1.040 as instructions indicate. It seems to be fermenting waaay to heavy to be in the secondary yet. It foamed up and blew a bit out the air lock... So I took out 1/2 a gallon to make a bit of room. It is bubbling one...

Forgive me if this is already a known idea. I was about to throw away two old cracked primary lids when I noticed the rubber gasket in them. I pulled them out and hung them on the wall. I later found that they work great for holding a towel over my primary or to hold a straining cloth. I also...

Going to start a Vitners Harvest apricot wine from a 96oz can. The can has fruit in it too. The directions state to put straining bag into fermenter, add fruit and tie off bag.. Is it ok to use cheese cloth for this? Thanks..

I was on ebay looking to buy a cheap refractometer and was pricing from low to high. The first one listed was a used Atago N1 brix refractometer 0-32 brix "made in Japan" for 20 bucks and 5 dollars shipping! Just got it today and man is it nice. Very well made, heavy, with crystal clear optics...

Did some research on how to make holes in rubber stoppers.. Seems the idea is to SLICE a hole, not drill. I found out that labs use a "cork borer" to put holes in rubber stoppers as needed.. Here is the tool...

Went to bottle my sp last night and noticed a strong alcohol smell. Took a taste and wow..I made an oops..Dropped my hydrometer in my pee that had been sweetened to 1.010 about two weeks ago and found it had refermented to dry again!! Arrrggghhh!! I think I sweetened too soon after stabilizing...

I currently have a batch of skeeter pee clearing. I decided I wanted to bottle it in beer bottles. After doing a bit of research on cappers, I decided to buy this stainless steel drill press capper off ebay. I just got it in the mail and I can say its very well made. Heavy stainless. Real thick...

What is a good sg to sweeten skeeter pee to. Is it similar to wine in sweetness and dryness? I am looking for a nice refreshing taste. Not too sweet, but not dry either. Maybe just add simple syrup untill I like it then take a reading?

My daughter Abby "10 yrs old". Overheard my wife and I talking about Skeeter Pee. She asked "Why is it called Skeeter-pee?" Well, thats what the person who invented the recipe named it. She responds.."Well, we know what his name is....Skeeter!" :slp We had a good laugh:)

My town recently made it legal to drive properly equipped golf carts on the roads that are 25mph and under. You just have to put all the lights and such on them, plus plates and insurance. Here are a few pics of our cart before and after. Before... After.. Its a lot of fun...

I finally built my heater system for my primary. We keep our house pretty cool year round. About 65-67. I was wondering if there is an "ideal" temp or temp range that is best for fermentation. Thanks

I put a few pics of my PID controlled primary heater for you guys to check out. Its in the albums page. Let me know what you think, or any questions..

I just bottled my first batch of "Welches concord wine" from frozen concentrate. Actually, my first wine ever. I had a bit of trouble with my Italian two handled corker. It left the corks about 1/4 inch sticking out. The jaws seened to slip off the raised end of the bottle. I started to panic...

I curently have 2 gallons of welches concored and 2 gallons of welches white grape/peach a little over one month old. They have all been degassed, stabilized and had spaklloid added. They have been clearing nicely for almost two weeks. I had planned on sweetening them a bit, but after reading...

I found a local "artesian" water supply store that will sell me a full jug "5gal" for $3.00 plus a $7.00 deposit. Thay also have 3 gallon ones. Seems like $10.00 is a good deal for a 5gal. carboy. Do any of you use these? They look about the same as a "better bottle", which costs much more.